The frock coat of the pope... Painting

"The frock coat of the pope of Hautot-sur-Mer" is a painting created by contemporary French artist painter Eric Bourdon with acrylic art paint on linen canvas stretched on a wooden support frame. The artwork is varnished and ready to hang. The aesthetic contemplation of the acrylic painting by French painter Eric Bourdon titled "The frock coat of the pope of Hautot-sur-Mer" does not direct us towards the canvas or towards the figures which appear on it, but towards an entirely different landscape and entirely different realities which are the "represented realities", "portrayed" or even "depicted" and which constitute, precisely, no longer the painting as an object of the world but the work of art in its aesthetic reality. "The frock coat of the pope of Hautot-sur-Mer" by contemporary painter Eric Bourdon thus invites the viewer to make this essential distinction between the material elements that serve as a support for an artwork, which belong to the real world of perception in the same way as any other real thing and, on the other hand, the piece of art as such, which no longer has its place in the world but precisely outside of it, so that we say, in this sense, that it is a pure transcendent imaginary space. © Eric Bourdon